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Narrator: Our civilization
is built on AC power,

remote control, and radio waves
for wireless communications.

Imagine our lives without
these technologies,

without the internet
and mobile telephones

and the connectedness
that they have brought us.

Looking back at the beginning
of the 20th century,

the technologies that
shape our lives today

were invented by
one inspired man.

- He pretty much
single handedly jump started

the Second Industrial
Revolution.

He was called 'the inventor
of the 20th century' back then

when the 20th century started.

And then, all of a sudden,
we all forgot about him

and he got excluded from
school books and everything.

(quirky electronic music)

Nikola: My name
is Nikola Tesla.

(slow folk music)

Narrator: Tesla believed
that electric energy

should be considered the same
as the air that we breathe

because, in nature, it is
present in unlimited quantities.

- Tesla's articles
were published

and republished by many
magazines and newspapers.

He was widely quoted,
widely followed.

He was, here in New York,
socially very well-known.

He was the ultimate gentleman;
a black tie, white tailed.

He was a great admirer
of Sarah Bernhardt

and other New York figures.

He was known on
the social scene.

Tesla was a combination
of a gentleman,

a combination of society
figure, scientist,

and a great engineer.

- Well, during Tesla's life,

he was one of the most famous
people in the entire world.

His fame for electricity

overshadowed Thomas
Edison's fame, I'm sure.

Narrator: When all
the newspapers were
only writing about

Nikola Tesla's new
inventions and achievements,

Edison began to execute animals
on the streets of New York

to show how dangerous Nikola
Tesla's electricity was.

Edison's hatred of Nikola Tesla

and his electromagnetic
motor got him to the point

where Edison's company
invented the electric chair.

(quirky electronic music)

Nikola: If you to find
the secrets of the universe,

think in terms of energy,
frequency, and vibration.

Narrator: But his biggest
project was to provide us

with free wireless power
transmission on Earth.

The project was called
Wardenclyffe Tower.

(speaking foreign language)

He is enigmatic.

He is mysterious.

His ideas are mysterious.

And that, of course, also
perhaps made the committee

that is more traditional in
its view of scientific problems

and so on that they thought,

"Interesting, but
let's wait and see."

But his vision for the
system of communication

is, for example, exactly
what we're doing.

- Nikola Tesla was given
this strange diagnosis

by many writers.

I disagree with them.

As a psychologist, I get
to see a lot of people

with obsessive-compulsive
disorder.

Nikola Tesla, for example,
I would say, was a creative.

He was somebody who
could get so involved

in all of his projects that
he would be consumed totally.

And whenever a creative
person is creating,

they're creating
something totally new,

something totally different.

It's an escape.

It's not the reality we know.

When he talked about

you might be able to
carry this instrument

in your pocket or your hands

and you could see a loved
one from way across the world

and talk to them
at the same time

and put it in your back
pocket, people at that time,

they weren't ready for
his kind of genius.

This was a man who was known
to speak over six languages.

This was a man who
was very well-read.

You need a certain
kinda divergent thinking

in order for you to be able
to think outside the box.

- In the year 1900,

he forecast that you and
I would have a cell phone.

In 1900, he knew that you
could wirelessly communicate

and he knew that at some point

not only would you wirelessly
be able to communicate voice

but you could wirelessly be
able to communicate pictures.

He saw all of that
going into the future.

Narrator: In his patent

A Method of Signaling
and System of Signaling,

he describes in 1900 how
messages of information

should be wirelessly
transferred with radio waves,

but that electric waves

would not be electromagnetic,
as hertz waves.

His observation and work

was to make the transmission
of information highly private,

that messages could
not be interfered with,

intercepted, or
disturbed in any way,

which is not the case
with Hertzian waves.

- Transmission of
electricity by wirelessly

is theoretically possible.

There are all kinds of
practical issues with it.

There are political
issues with it.

We already have people
who are very concerned

about the electromagnetics
given off by cell phones.

Man: The wavelengths
of the Tesla frequencies

are extremely long, so
there's no way that your body

can get any
electromagnetism out of it.

It's just the electrostatic.

The electrostatic is
very closely related

to the orgone or the life force.

(speaking foreign language)

- Tesla's frequencies, they
behave in a different manner.

They actually have been
found to be beneficial

and were used for medical
purposes for quite some time.

But that's how Tesla
continued to make money

after the Wardenclyffe dive,

because he worked for these
electrotherapeutic companies

like Fischer that made all
of these Tesla transmitters

and then they would apply
the frequencies to the body

and they were found
to be beneficial

because they're a different
type of frequency.

(broken radio transmission)

- I mean, they had nothing
to work with hardly.

They had some wire and silk wrap

and some wooden blocks
and some brass screws,

and they built this whole
theory and proved everything

with virtually nothing.

Now, what kind of
intellect can do that?

There's nobody on the planet
today that could do that.

Outta six billion
people, there isn't one.

(radio static crackling)

- He didn't sleep much.

He didn't need to sleep

because he was
nurtured by the prana,

by life energy, by frequency,

and that's what
he was all about.

He was all about frequency.

Narrator: Everything
in our reality

has its own frequency.

As we know, we can see
between 440 and 770 terahertz.

We hear between 20
and 20,000 hertz.

Our heart beats at a
frequency of 1 to 1.67 hertz.

And our brain functions

at a frequency between
0.5 and 30 hertz.

The higher the
frequency of the brain,

the more alert or
stressed we are.

Now, Earth also has
its own frequency,

and it is the same as our brain

when it is in a state of
telepathic possibilities

or state of global awareness.

It is 7.83 hertz.

Nikola: The gift of
mental power comes from God,

divine being.

And if we concentrate
our minds on the truth,

we become in-tune
with this great power.

Narrator: Nikola Tesla's
father was an orthodox priest,

and the same fate was
waiting for young Tesla.

However, his mother
inspired him to invent.

She came from an
inventor's family

and was an inventor herself.

From an early age,
she played memory

and telepathic games
with her children.

That is how she encouraged
a special kind of thinking.

At a very young age, he
constructed a water turbine.

He was fascinated by
description of Niagara Falls

that he found in books.

In his imagination,

he pictured a big wheel
powered by the falls.

30 years later, his childhood
dream would come true.

(speaking foreign language)

- All of his
inventions would come,

he said it would come with
a flash of light in his head

and a big migraine, and then
he would see the device.

He was able to
visualize the device

that came with this flash
of light in such detail

that he didn't need to make
a blueprint to build it.

- And he'd see the schematic
and that's all he'd see.

He couldn't see people, he
couldn't see anything else

until that went away.

But it was frozen in
his mind long enough

for once it went away, he
could sit down and draw it out,

all the detail,
dimensions, everything.

It was really weird, but in
his way, he used it as a tool.

(slow piano music)

- His thought, his
thinking, his genius

rose above his origin

and the tiny little village
in which he was born

and the country in
which we were born,

a country that
(sighing) I would say is

an unhappy place historically.

Nikola: I am equally
proud of my Serbian origin

and Croatian homeland.

- He invented radio
control robots

so that people wouldn't
have to go to war anymore.

They could just send the
machines to fight each other!

But that didn't work.

But he was not naive about
the problems of human nature

and what humanity as a
group has to go through

to emerge at this higher
level of maturity.

Woman: His big dream
was that planet Earth

will be endless source of energy

and we will not
need any gas, oil,

any corporations, any
wars, and all the bullshit.

- So, in his vision,
it would be a society

that's not driven
by material gain.

It would be a society that's
driven by connecting mankind

to the highest possible level.

- But I think the kind
of ideal world he had,

we are not ready for it.

We have to change consciousness.

It's all about how the human
can change his consciousness.

By changing consciousness,

we can change the
rest of the world

with our own consciousness.

- Because consciousness

is not something you're
manufacturing in your brain.

Consciousness is your brain

and your whole body
acting as an antenna,

tapping into this
field of information.

And I think Tesla knew this

and he was very, very
protective of that field

so that he could download
incredible information

and apply it to technologies.

- I think a lot of this
personality of Tesla,

that he tells the press that
he's counting his silverware,

he's polishing this, he
doesn't wanna shake hands,

he doesn't like pearls,
things of that nature.

And I thought, "This is his way

"of fooling the
press a little bit."

(slow piano music)

- When you become aware

that you're bathing in
this field of information

and you become better
at controlling it

and expecting and extracting
information from it,

you become more sensitive
to what's around you,

the people that are around you,

what they're thinking, how
they influence the field.

And that's why he didn't like
to shake hands with people.

He was very aware
of any energies

that were not of the highest.

When he was trying
to concentrate

and download the information,

he didn't necessarily
want somebody around him

that was kind of
messing up the field.

- That's also the reason why

he probably didn't wanna get
involved with a woman ever,

because he could see
the patterns of that
into the future.

He could see what
it would entail

for him to have a
relationship with,

any kind of intimate
relationship with a person,

how much it would take
away from inventing

all the stuff that we
now take for granted.

- He castrated himself
not to have sex,

'cause all this energy, he
will dedicate it to science.

I think, when you are
such a degree of genius,

solitude is something
that you have to deal with

all your life.

Nikola: My brain
is only a receiver.

In the universe, there is a core

from which we obtain knowledge,
strength, and inspiration.

I have not penetrated into
the secrets of this core,

but I know that it exists.

(phone ringing)

- Yeah, basically,
he was the first one

to come up with a
workable radio system.

Radio, as he usually
conceived it,

was probably very similar
to what we do now,

but he realized very quickly

that it's extremely inefficient.

And you have to understand
that Tesla's focus

was totally on efficiency

of the energy economics
of the system.

His electrodes were
actually virtual antenna

that was strictly for
the storage of charge

on a temporary basis.

The actual signal was
sent into the Earth.

Narrator: He
discovered that the Earth

is a conductor of
unlimited dimensions,

like a vast reservoir,

and behaves like an
ocean when disturbed.

No matter how much
along its axis

the Earth is disturbed
with electric waves,

it always keeps the
same natural frequency.

(speaking foreign language)

Narrator: He discovered
the natural frequency

of the Earth.

And not only that,
he also discovered

that the frequency that
the Earth harmonizes with

is an odd number.

Nikola: If you only
knew the magnificence

of the three, six, and nine,

then you would have a
key to the universe.

Woman: Attention:
You're in ether.

Narrator: In Tesla's time

of discovering radio
wave transmission,

it was believed that they
were traveling through ether.

- All the way up to 1905,

there's an energetic ether
or an energetic substrate.

It's absent for 25
years from 1905 to 1930,

where the belief of the
scientific community
was it's empty.

From 1930 on,

when quantum electric
dynamics became accepted,

it came back as a far
more energetic model.

So, it's ironic that
our beliefs today

are dominated from such a
small little window of history.

- And a lotta people
look at empty space

and they think
it's actually empty

when it's filled with
infinite potential.

Narrator: He also wrote
a formula for human energy

that is the mass
squared of velocity.

He said, "Velocity is a force

"governing everything
in nature."

If we look to Einstein's
famous formula of relativity,

it is the same, just that
Einstein defined velocity

as the speed of light
instead of ether.

He discovered that the
discharged electricity

of lightning in Earth

travel from one side
of the Earth to another

at a speed of 471,240
kilometers per second.

That is how he proved
that the speed of light

was not the ultimate
speed in our reality.

- What we have not yet managed
to do is to unite gravity,

which is the classical
theory still,

the classical
theory of Einstein,

and the quantum
physical description

of our other interactions.

The basic question is
can you find one law

which contains all the
different interactions in nature

in one single expression?

(speaking foreign language)

Narrator: In 1900, he
describes the importance

of producing electrical power
from renewable energy sources.

He also described a
wireless power transmission

and transfer through a
natural medium: Earth.

Woman: Every year,
the level of temperatures

of our planet are rising

because of the enormous usage
of fossil fuels and coal.

But if we would
listen to Nikola Tesla

and his plan for our future,

we would not deal with
climate changes now.

- I believe that mankind
has looked at climate change

in that same way, as
if it were a fiction,

as if pretending that
climate change wasn't real

would somehow make it go away.

But I think we all know
better than that now.

Every week, we're seeing new
and undeniable climate events,

evidence that accelerated
climate change is
here right now.

Droughts are intensifying,

our oceans are acidifying
with methane plumes

rising up from the ocean floor.

We are seeing extreme
weather events

in the West Antarctic
and Greenland Ice Sheets

melting at unprecedented rates,

decades ahead of
scientific projections.

The time to answer humankind's
greatest challenge is now.

- There are about seven
billion people in the world.

And so, now, not only do we
have to find energy for people,

but we have to do
it in such a way

so that it will not continue
adding carbon dioxide

and other greenhouse gases.

(speaking foreign language)

- What's incredible to me

is that his name is now a
brand of a car. (laughing)

And that's how the majority
of people know him.

- But that was not
Martin Abrahams idea.

He was a fan of Nikola Tesla,

particularly
because Nikola Telsa

invented the three-phase motor
and three-phase electricity.

And all of these
motors that we use

to drive these vehicles
are three-phase motors.

And it's one of those things

that it seems it's
obviously a very good idea

after somebody thought of it,

but somebody had to
think of it first,

and that was Nikola Tesla.

- Tesla was studying
three years in Graz.

In the first two years,
he was very successful.

He was really good in
mathematics and physics.

Narrator: But one day, a
new invention of that time

came from Paris.

It was Gramme's dynamo.

While Professor Poeschl
was making demonstrations,

the brushes caused a
problem, sparking badly.

Tesla commented that
it might be possible

to operate a motor
without these appliances.

Professor Poeschl
remarked that Mr. Tesla

might accomplish great things,

but that he would certainly
never achieve that.

It would be the
equivalent of converting

a steadily-pulling force
like that of gravity

into a rotary effort.

It is a perpetual motion
scheme, an impossible idea.

Being humiliated in
front of the whole class

made Tesla shift his thinking
to accept the challenge

and prove that the
impossible was possible.

He left the university.

He needed money.

That is why he went to an
industrial town, Maribor,

where Nikola Tesla
met Karl Scherbaum,

who was trying to construct
a little power station

to produce electricity
out of his bakery.

Tesla got involved
with this project.

After he shared his ideas
of the dynamo improvement

and how to connect
it to a steam mill,

the police arrested him.

The official police report
from the 24th of March, 1879,

says, "Nikola Tesla had to
be escorted by police guard

"to his hometown, Gospic.

"The reason: no money, no job,

"and no vision for the future."

Only he knew that he was
close to an invention

that could change
the whole world,

but no one believed him anymore.

Nikola: Energy
of a single thought

may determine the
motion of a universe.

Narrator: To fulfill the
last wish of his father,

he went to Prague and signed
up for philosophical studies

at the Charles University.

In Prague, he spent
most of the time

in the Klementinum Library.

Earth's magnetic field

makes the moon rotate
around our planet.

The sun makes the
Earth and moon rotate

by its strong magnetic
field around the sun.

But how to imitate that
magnetic field from the cosmos

into the rotation of a motor.

In Budapest, he was focusing
so much on his invention

that he got sensitive
to any vibration.

The whistle of a
locomotive 30 miles away

made vibrations so strong

that the pain in his
body was unbearable.

The ground under his feet
trembled continuously.

And then, one day,

his motor appeared in his mind.

(ethereal music)

(folksy piano music)

1884.

Nikola Tesla arrives in America.

- Tesla, who came
on his own volition

with essentially no family
or no money available to him,

only a letter of credit from
the Edison functions in Paris.

Narrator: Edison gives him
a job, but is not interested

in Tesla's electromagnetic
motor invention.

He is there to improve
Edison direct current motors.

Edison promises him
$50,000 for that.

- And Edison had
all these problems

with these big DC systems

'cause they are creating
these massive magnetic fields;

I mean, just massive.

You're running DC current
down from one end of Manhattan

to the other through cables;
I mean, cables this big.

Thousands of amps
at just 100 volts

'cause Edison
didn't like voltage.

So, he worked with
everything at 100 volts,

which is, from an engineering
standpoint, is brain-dead,

but he was convinced 100
volts wouldn't kill anybody.

Narrator: Tesla makes
24 new designs for him,

but the payment turns
out to be just a joke.

Tesla answered Edison's joke

by patenting all the
improvements he did for Edison

so that Edison could not
legally use Tesla's unpaid work.

This sets off a rivalry
between Tesla and Edison.

The climax of their competition

was when Nikola Tesla,
together with Westinghouse,

signed a contract
to light up Chicago.

Man: The age of
electricity had arrived.

Narrator: Chicago was
the first city in the world

lit by electric power, and it
was Nikola Tesla's invention

of an electromagnetic motor
that produced AC power.

That was a truly
historical moment

and the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution.

27 million visitors
from 46 countries

from all around the world
came to see the exhibition.

Tesla proved that he was
the most important inventor

in the world

and that the
impossible was possible

if you followed your
dreams and instinct.

The world at once knew
the name Nikola Tesla.

- Tesla's first connection
was to connect Niagara Falls,

the electric energy
from Niagara Falls,

to the electric grid.

Thomas Edison was
still relying on coal.

- Tesla achieved
replacing all the coal,

individual coal-fired plants
that were in people factories

that were sickening and
poisoning everybody around him,

into electric motors and
cleaning the whole thing up.

- But the ultimate goal
was to take from a source

that was basically free.

Of course, then the
power from Niagara Falls

was transmitted via a
polyphase power system

to cities like Buffalo
and New York City.

Narrator: He
developed 40 inventions

for producing and
distributing electric energy.

In all this time,
changes were only made

in the development of materials.

His invention of
the AC power system

are still being used today
and have remained unchanged.

(speaking foreign language)

- Tesla was the father
of renewable energy

because hydroelectric
power is renewable.

The water evaporates,
it comes down as rain,

fills the lakes,

because those sources do not
provide CO2 into the atmosphere

and they do not therefore
create a climate change problem.

- The electric cars have been
around for a very long time.

In the early-1900s, there were
quite a few electric cars.

For a while there,

they were more popular
than gasoline cars

'cause you didn't have to
start them with a crank handle.

But the batteries, of
course, weren't great.

So, the big thing
that's changed now

is that we've got
vastly better batteries,

and of course we've
got all the electronics

and software to
control the motors.

So, electric cars actually
predated gasoline cars.

(ethereal music)

Part of the vision
of the Tesla founders

was to change the public
perception of electric cars,

and I think that Tesla
Motors has succeeded

enormously well at doing that.

First, you have to
remember this was 2003,

so that's the year that
the California mandate

for zero-emission
vehicles got repealed

and you couldn't
buy an electric car.

All of the ones that
had been on the market,

like the General Motors EV1
were taken off the market,

and the EV1s were
actually taken back

by General Motors and crushed.

Well, the only reason

that people didn't all
drive electric cars

was 'cause, well, you
couldn't buy one. (laughing)

Someone had to make one.

There's a great tendency
for people to think

that electric cars
are zero-emission.

Well, they're
zero-emission at the car.

But if you plug
them into the grid,

then they're getting electricity
from the national grid,

and a lot of that is still coal.

So, in the US, that's about 40%.

In Australia, it's 69%.

In China, it's over 90% coal.

So, it depends where you are.

For most countries in the world,

if you plug an electric
car into the grid,

you're burning coal.

Narrator: What
if an alternative
system already exists,

one that could charge
our telephones,

computers, and electric
cars wirelessly?

(speaking foreign language)

Woman: Tesla
intended for this place

to be what he called
his radio city.

He intended it to be a place
of communication system

and an energy-generating
facility.

Narrator: In 1901,
he began to build

his Wardenclyffe Tower as
a magnifying transmitter.

- He was trying to
build a huge Tesla coil

that would electrify the
ionosphere and enable free power

for everybody that
has an antenna.

He would imitate lightning
and reflect them to the Earth.

That electric charge
that would accumulate

in the globe of the tower

would then be transmitted
in pulses through the Earth.

Like that, energy
and information

would be transmitted instantly

to every point on Earth
into a small device.

It is this patent that
our mobile telephones

as well as wifi devices
were developed from.

But how would we use that?

We would stick a device
like a wifi modem

directly with the
wire into the ground

in front of our house.

This would receive power and
information from the Earth

and at the same time distribute
it further through the air

to devices that need
electric energy to work.

Each device would then
have a small receiver

the size of a watch that would
be placed into the product,

like receivers of wifi
transmission today in computers,

which detect these signals.

Our mobiles would
work the same way,

just that the signal would
be covered everywhere you go

and not change by bad weather.

In addition, we would
not need to charge them

or anything else anymore.

Tesla envisioned that we
would power not only houses

but cars, trains,
and airplanes too.

It would not be necessary
to dig into the Earth

for fossil fuels
or coal anymore.

We would use the
Earth and ionizing air

to do what nature
naturally uses it to do.

(speaking foreign language)

Narrator: The tower was
almost completely finished,

but Tesla was left
without money.

- JP Morgan was one of the main
financial backers for Tesla

with this project.

There came a point
when Guglielmo Marconi

sent a trans-Atlantic message,

made a big splash with
what he was able to do.

Meanwhile, he had been
using Tesla's patents

and Tesla's work to
be able to do that.

What Morgan had supported here

was the idea that Tesla
would be able to send

that kind of communication.

So, once Marconi did it,

Morgan no longer had any use
for what Tesla was doing.

It had already been
done by someone else.

And so, his interest
in supporting the
continued work here

was no longer part of his plan.

Tesla went to him and said,
"Well, I have greater plans

"than just sending a
trans-Atlantic message.

"I want to create an
opportunity for people to have

"unlimited amounts of
energy transported."

- JP Morgan said, "Nobody's
pulling up to my gas pump

"and getting the gas for free,"

and Nikola Tesla wanted to
give it to the world for free

for the betterment of mankind.

Nikola: For our
existence and comfort,

we require heat, light,
and mechanical power.

How do we now get
all these things?

We get them from fuel.

We get them by
consuming material.

What will man do when
the forests disappear,

when the coalfields
are exhausted?

- They literally turned
off the public's mind.

They manipulated
the public's mind.

They'd hypnotize 'em into
a sleep and forgetfulness.

The media was new and fresh
then and they realized

that they could really
manipulate whole
populations with it,

and that's what they
did with Nikola Tesla.

They took this new
form, the new mediums,

they bought up all
the newspapers,

and they used it to put the
public to sleep about this.

- "Tesla's work holds
the mark of genius

"and he has been a pioneer

"in vast fields of
electrotechnology.

"However, his contributions
lie too far back in time,

"40 years, to be considered
for a Nobel Prize award."

Interesting is that the
Nobel Committee really states

that Tesla's work holds
the mark of genius.

Narrator: Was that
really the reason

why Tesla did not get
the Nobel Prize in 1937,

because his inventions
were too old?

Or was there something
else that happened before

that prevented him from
getting the Nobel Prize?

(radio static crackling)

(telegraph machine beeping)

In 1909, the Nobel
Prize in Physics

was given to Guglielmo Marconi

for recognition to contributions

of the development of
wireless telegraphy.

- They underline
that Tesla had made

the most crucial improvements.

Since we have known that
Marconi got the prize,

you can't go back.

If you have a made a decision,
it might be totally wrong.

- He would never
be granted a patent

because Tesla already had the
patents granted in his name.

But after he became
associated with JP Morgan,

magically, the
patents were granted.

So, money has a lot to say
about how these things get done.

Narrator: The last
years of Tesla's life

were mostly spent in court,

defending his patents
and inventions.

Marconi's company
was selling licenses

for radio transmission in the US

and getting big fees for
using radio transmission.

But when they also wanted to
get paid from the US government

for their contribution of
using radio communication

in World War I,
the trial started.

There were enormous financial
interests behind this trial.

- And all that
information was then used

to form the RCA Corporation,

which became a very
big moneymaker for
the establishment.

- And at that time,

that's when they started
to attack his reputation,

try to make him look like a
kook and a crank in the press.

By the early-'40s, he had
been nearly forgotten.

- For many years, Nikola Tesla
lived in the Waldorf-Astoria.

And over that time, John Jacob
Astor and he were friends.

Once Astor died in the Titanic,

the property at the Waldorf
was owned by another man;

his name was George Boldt.

And not long after
that, Mr. Boldt died.

And over those years, Tesla
wasn't paying his rent.

He was living there on credit.

And once those two
gentlemen died,

Boldt's heirs decided
they wanted to have Tesla

pay what he owed them, and
he didn't have the money.

So, the heirs to George
Boldt brought him to court.

In 1915, he lost
ownership of the property

and it was taken over by those
people he owed a debt to,

primarily the heirs to
the Waldorf-Astoria.

- They did everything in
the power to discredit him

so he would never be
able to achieve that,

that he would never
be able to get funding

from somebody else to
achieve free energy,

which I think was one of the
biggest crimes against humanity

that ever happened.

(plodding piano music)

Nikola: I don't care
that they stole my idea.

I care that they don't
have any of their own.

Narrator: It is
time to learn the truth

about wireless
power transmission,

which once existed on Earth,

not only as an idea but
as a functional system

from which we still use today's
systems of communication.

- We started putting
the pieces together

and started doing
experimentation

where we actually have
duplicated some of his work,

and especially with
his power claims

that he could generate
massive amounts of electricity

for small amounts of horsepower,

which means I don't have
to burn coal and oil

in great big mountains
to get my electricity.

We could take power
out, get 50 watts in,

take that same power we use,

send it back through
the transformer

and cancel out the input power

and measure one watt
at the transformer

and 50 watts at the pole.

- Wrightspeed is a
powertrain company.

We make powertrains,
not vehicles;

all the stuff that
makes them go.

And they're electric powertrains
for heavy-duty vehicles.

The big difference
though with this

is that it's got an onboard
generator for the range extender

that can burn fuel onboard

and make electricity to
keep the battery charged,

so you can keep driving forever.

- Hyperloops is often called

the fifth mode of
transportation.

Imagine a capsule and moving

basically just below
the speed of sound.

So, the capsule levitates

through a passive magnetic
levitation technology

called Inductrack.

The whole system is powered
by alternative energy.

So, you have solar
panels along the track,

so using the same right-of-way.

And we're using wind,

kinetic energy through
regenerative breaking,

and, depending on the
climate, even geothermal

to potentially
produce more energy

than we're actually using.

We realized very early on

that in order to make
Hyperloop happen,

we needed to build more
than just a company.

We needed to build a movement.

I think that if you have a
single person like Nikola Tesla

who has great ideas,
great capabilities,

and what it really takes
then to move it forward

is to find other people
passionate about the same thing

that help him to
elevate the thing.

It's always good
to have the genius

and also understand how to
get something to the market.

- And apparently, Swamiji and
Tesla got along very well.

Tesla was very impressed
with him, and Swamiji also.

In Tesla's writing, he always
used these Sanskrit terms.

(speaking foreign language)
can be translated as 'ether',

basic building blocks of nature.

So, even before creation,
this ether will exist.

And Swamiji thought that he
could mathematically prove

the equivalency, so
that matter and energy

were not two different things.

And Swamiji felt that
if Tesla could do this,

this would give him
mathematical proof to this idea

that was accepted thousands
of years ago in India.

- Our main goal is
to understand better

what was the evolution
of the laws of nature

in the very early
moments of the universe,

just after the Big Bang.

We have now approached
that initial moment

to about one-trillionth
of a second.

I mean, what don't know
what caused the Big Bang

and we don't know what kind
of energy was available

because we have no way of
going beyond the Big Bang.

So, I guess that's a
metaphysical question.

Nikola: The day
science begins to study

nonphysical phenomena,

it will make more
progress in one decade

than in all the previous
centuries of its existence.

Narrator: To understand
the Wardenclyffe project,

do we need a small shift
in our understanding?

(electricity crackling)

- Boy, nobody ever
asks the question:

What did he do
with a Tesla coil?

He had ways to where he
could take that high voltage

and oscillate at
right frequencies

to where he could
trick electrons

in a way to where they opened
what we call the ether valve.

Some of the experiments,

he would go to the
far end of Long Island

in the darkest, darkest part
he could get away from lights

and then he'd hook up

this small high-voltage Tesla
coil-type system he had.

And what it would do, it would
take the layers of nitrogen

in the atmosphere along that
wire and it would ionize

and he would strip the
electrons off that layer of gas.

And then, all of a sudden,

he would light up acres and
acres and acres of forest,

and every air molecule
was emitting light.

- Our consciousness
is not in the brain.

That's mechanical.

Consciousness is connected
to all consciousnesses.

They're all connected together.

And the computer, if you will,

to which our consciousness
is connected is the brain.

Narrator: With the
Wardenclyffe Tower,

he would increase the natural
potential of the Earth.

But that would also
increase our consciousness.

- In 1917, on the
Fourth of July,

they set dynamite to the statue.

They hoped to be able
to get some money back

on what Tesla owed them by
selling the tower for scrap.

Narrator: Edison
started to build

his motion picture empire,

connecting all the
people in the US

that had inventions in motion
pictures under a corporation

called the Motion
Pictures Patent Company,

known also as the Edison Trust.

The Edison Trust
would issue licenses

to all the producers
or distributors

who dared to deal
in motion pictures.

But there were
independent producers

that pirated films and
equipment from Europe

and were secretly
shooting films in the US

without Edison's approval.

Even Charlie Chaplin
was a star in Europe

through the pirated films

brought by these
producers to Europe

while, in the US, he could
not be seen on screen

because of the
Edison Trust license.

The Edison Trust was
made to have control

over what is produced
and distributed

in motion pictures in the US.

Edison had to be sure
that nothing about Tesla

would come to the big screen.

(speaking foreign language)

Narrator:
Independent producers

were fighting with Edison.

And to get far away from Edison,

they began to build a motion
picture town: Hollywood,

a place where there was
a lot of natural light

and they did not need
his Black Maria Studio

or his approval to make movies.

Finally, after a federal
court decision in 1915,

the monopoly of Edison
Trust was dismissed

as an unnecessary
protection of patents.

(speaking foreign language)

Narrator: At the same
time that Nikola Tesla

lost his property
at Wardenclyffe,

Edison lost his Edison Trust.

In May 1915, Edison wrote
in the New York Times,

"The government should maintain
a great research laboratory

"where it could be developed

"all the technique of
military and naval progression

"without any vast expense."

The US Congress
allocated $1.5 million

for its implementation.

Edison agreed to serve

as the head of the
Naval Consulting Board.

A Navy laboratory was set up

to experiment with
wireless technology

and continue Nikola
Tesla's work.

With Wardenclyffe, Nikola
Tesla had described

the idea of internet and emails,

electric newspapers,
and social media.

It was the US Navy
laboratory that in the end

paved the way for the internet.

John Edgar Hoover,

who is credited with
establishing the FBI in 1935,

was personally
following Nikola Tesla.

That is why Tesla, for the
last decades of his life,

never walked alone

and was always watched
by his secret police.

- He was basically feeding
pigeons in the park

'til the day he died,

and he's one of the
brightest guys on Earth.

I can't even imagine how
frustrating that must've been.

People just didn't
listen to him anymore.

They didn't take him seriously.

Narrator: It is absurd that
the man who invented radio

and wireless communication
was in the end

the only one using the
old way of communicating,

via pigeons.

They were the only way
for him to communicate

with the rest of the city

without John Edgar Hoover
and the FBI knowing about it.

- I met him myself.

He hugged me and kissed me
like any good Serb could do,

and he understood in me

that I represented him
as a younger person,

because he had an
older brother who died,

I had an older brother who
died, both accidentally.

And he saw in me a
little bit of himself

as I was approaching his age.

- He cared about people.

Everything was from a
humanitarian standpoint.

And to take a guy like that

and then have to put him in
the mix of industrialists

and capitalists and
the greed and fear

and the money game and all that,

how he survived all
that is amazing.

I mean, he kept his
integrity to his last breath.

Narrator: He should've
been a billionaire,

but he died alone and penniless
in a New York hotel room

on Orthodox Christmas in
New York City in 1943.

The US Supreme Court
finally decided

that Tesla was
the rightful owner

for the patents for wireless
communication after his death,

despite Marconi being awarded
a Nobel Prize for this.

- He was forgotten for a
while in the '50s and '60s.

Now, we have a resurgence
of interest in Tesla.

There was a rock
band called Tesla

here in the United States.

And of course, the
selection by Elon Musk

of the name Tesla
for his automobile

was a, I think, tremendous
boost to Tesla's legacy.

It caused a lotta
people to wonder,

"Well, who is this Tesla?"

(slow piano music)

- The idea of Tesla is not one

that many Americans
grew up with.

It's sometimes hard for teachers

to understand even why or what.

In the morning, our students
say the Inventor's Pledge,

and so it is a
pledge to themselves

as well as to the
school community.

Says, "Last night
I was a dreamer

"and today I am an inventor.

"If I can dream it,
I can imagine it.

"And if I can imagine
it, I can create it."

- Nothing better than one man

change whole world what
better can we ask for?

Paul: The interest
in Tesla today

is people talk about
the mythology so much

when they talk about Tesla.

Nobody's really been
trying to understand

what he was talking
about and what he did.

Humanity needs this stuff and
we can't let this stuff die.

- Tesla's favorite
machine was what he called

the self-acting engine,
and it is a machine

that takes the heat
of the ambient air

and it allows us to
harness solar energy

at any place on
the planet, 24/7.

- The good news is
that renewable energy

is not only achievable
but good economic policy.

This is not a partisan
debate, it is a human one.

Clean air and a livable climate

are inalienable human rights.

And solving this crisis is
not a question of politics,

it is a question of
our own survival.

Narrator: In the end,

it was not only Tesla
that was repressed,

but us, all of civilization.

He did his job.

He gave us all what he was
living and working for,

and we are using almost
all of his inventions today

but not for free
as he wanted us to.

He said that the world was
not ready for his invention.

It was too far
ahead of its time.

But he also said that the same
laws would prevail in the end

and make it a triumphal success.

Paul: And it has to
be about his science.

Otherwise, his day is done.

We're never gonna get another
genius like that ever again,

so we have to pick
up where he left off.

And it's gonna take a
whole bunch of minds

to do what this one mind did.

Nikola: Let the
future tell the truth

and evaluate each one

according to his work
and accomplishments.

The present is theirs.

The future for which I
have really worked is mine.

My name is Nikola Tesla.

(pensive folk music)